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the Bees are an example to us, of giving honour f d old 
men. 
When this Captain Bombyliut has explored whether 
the work anlweresthe R ile j he doth defcead into the 
and every one of the younger does anew fe£ 
upon each his work. 
In the Morning thefe come late to the work, and un- 
lels thefe little creatures, which daily in the morning creep 
upon them and about them, did not excite them, they 
would come later. 
They have allb amongft them another Bombilim-i who 
like the Drnmmr^ do’s beat to the Souldiers , to 
come to the Gardes, or to move the Camp, or to March, 
or to F ight with the found of the Drum, fo alfo do’s he 
excite them to work. 
This about 7 a Clock ith morning, do’s alcend to the 
topofthe work, to be built, and with the halfe of his 
body, looking out of the hole, doth vibrate and agitate 
his wings, and by the benefit of them, doth excite a 
ftreperous noife in the hollow Lalibulumi not unlike the 
noifeofa Drum, which moftly is heard a whole quarter 
of an hour. 
I, an expert perlbn, and an Ear witnefle, do comme- 
morate theft things 5 Xea and an Eye witnefle, and toge- 
ther with Me, many others have heard it more then 
once,tbe Vibrating and Streperous wings of that Drum- 
mer of i he I fay, Pcrfonsjwhich for the hearing 
of this curiofity have vifited me^ 
Befides, and to theft, there is one that doth Watchi for 
when ftmetimes I did beat the neft , this Forth with 
did aftend out of the Latibulumf as oneftruck and afto^ 
niftied, and did Dijcum every where, as one that did ex- 
plore what matter was without but (uboderating noe 
danger, again he (ben del^ended. More then once I have 
with admiration fcen that. Sometimes alfo, I have put 
uponthefticksaDoineftickSeei but having (pyedthis, 
O 2 forth- 
